Enmanuel Valdez

26-Year-Old First Baseman1B

Pittsburgh Pirates

2025 Stats

AVG

.209

RBI

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2025 Fantasy Outlook

Valdez spent the last two seasons on Boston's carousel of second basemen. During his time with the organization, the lefty-hitting middle infielder showed pop potential, swatting 16 and 17 home runs between Triple-A and MLB in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Last season in the majors, he was better-than-average in hard-hit percentage (41.8), barrel percentage (9.2) and exit velocity (89.4). Those peripherals apparently intrigued the Pirates into giving up a minor-league reliever for Valdez, who joins a crowded infield. Nick Gonzalez finished out 2024 as the primary second baseman and entered camp as the putative starter in 2025. Read Past Outlooks

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#361

ADP

League Majors

Bats L

Throws R

40 Man Yes

Height 5'9"

Weight 191

DOB 12/28/1998

Born San Juan de la Maguana, DR

College None

Drafted 2015 HOU

Back in action in winter ball

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December 1, 2025

Valdez (shoulder) has returned to game action with the Estrellas Orientales in the Dominican Winter League, Alex Stumpf of MLB.com reports.

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Valdez underwent season-ending surgery in May to repair a dislocated left shoulder, but he's played three winter ball games and smacked a grand slam in his third contest for Estrellas on Sunday. Slated to turn 27 later this month, Valdez slashed .209/.294/.363 with two home runs and an 11:16 BB:K over 102 plate appearances for Pittsburgh before getting hurt. It seems Valdez will ready to roll for the start of spring training and he'll compete for a spot on the Pirates' Opening Day roster in 2026.

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Batting Order Slot Breakdown

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Left/Right Batting Splits

Since 2023

+130%

OPS vs RHP

2025

+149%

OPS vs RHP

2024

+135%

OPS vs RHP

2023

+105%

OPS vs RHP

	OPS	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG
Since 2023vs Left	.319	63	3	0	5	1	.107	.194	.125
Since 2023vs Right	.734	410	44	14	54	5	.248	.302	.432
2025vs Left	.282	11	0	0	3	0	.100	.182	.100
2025vs Right	.703	91	7	2	9	0	.222	.308	.395
2024vs Left	.296	36	1	0	0	0	.094	.171	.125
2024vs Right	.697	187	22	6	28	1	.237	.289	.408
2023vs Left	.393	16	2	0	2	1	.143	.250	.143
2023vs Right	.806	132	15	6	17	4	.280	.318	.488
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Home/Away Batting Splits

Since 2023

+52%

OPS at Home

2025

+61%

OPS at Home

2024

+63%

OPS at Home

2023

+29%

OPS at Home

	OPS	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG
Since 2023Home	.807	255	26	8	33	3	.267	.333	.474
Since 2023Away	.532	218	21	6	26	3	.186	.235	.296
2025Home	.791	57	5	1	9	0	.260	.351	.440
2025Away	.491	45	2	1	3	0	.146	.222	.268
2024Home	.787	110	11	3	13	1	.260	.327	.460
2024Away	.482	113	12	3	15	0	.168	.214	.267
2023Home	.842	88	10	4	11	2	.280	.330	.512
2023Away	.652	60	7	2	8	3	.246	.283	.368
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Stat Review

How does Enmanuel Valdez compare to other hitters?

This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.

BB/K
Walk to strikeout ratio
BB Rate
The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
K Rate
The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
BABIP
Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
ISO
Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
AVG
Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
OBP
On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
SLG
Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
OPS
On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
wOBA
Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
Exit Velocity
The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
Hard Hit Rate
A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
Barrels/PA
The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
Expected BA
Expected Batting Average.
Expected SLG
Expected Slugging Percentage.
Sprint Speed
The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
Ground Ball %
The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
Line Drive %
The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
Fly Ball %
The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.

BB/K

0.69

BB Rate

10.8%

K Rate

15.7%

BABIP

.233

ISO

.154

AVG

.209

OBP

.294

SLG

.363

OPS

.657

wOBA

.293

Exit Velocity

89.8 mph

Hard Hit Rate

29.3%

Barrels/PA

5.9%

Expected BA

.257

Expected SLG

.410

Sprint Speed

21.6 ft/sec

Ground Ball %

34.7%

Line Drive %

25.3%

Fly Ball %

40.0%

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Past Fantasy Outlooks

2024

2023

The Red Sox acquired Vaughn Grissom in the Chris Sale trade with the expectation that Grissom would be the Opening Day second baseman in 2024. However, it could end up being Valdez at the keystone instead, if the groin strain Grissom suffered early in spring training costs him the start of the season, as feared. After a long climb through the Houston organization, Valdez was traded to Boston at the 2022 deadline in the Christian Vazquez deal. Valdez finally debuted in the majors in April last year and played in 49 games with the Red Sox around missed time due to thumb and hamstring injuries. Although Valdez is not tall in stature, there is legitimate power in his bat. He muscled 16 home runs in just 106 games between Triple-A and the majors last season after blasting 28 long balls across three stops the year prior.

Valdez was acquired by the Red Sox in the trade that sent Christian Vazquez to the Astros, and the young infielder was added to the 40-man roster in November. The 24-year-old had a .731 OPS at Triple-A Worcester after the trade, but he had a strong campaign overall with a .296/.376/.542 slash line between Double-A and Triple-A. Valdez is a strong candidate to make his MLB debut in 2023, especially if Boston doesn't make a significant addition in the middle infield following the departure of Xander Bogaerts in free agency.

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Still not hitting

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Shoulder

September 18, 2025

Valdez (shoulder) will not be cleared to start hitting until the offseason, MLB.com reports.

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Tracking well in recovery

1BPittsburgh Pirates

Shoulder

August 20, 2025

Pirates director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk said Wednesday that Valdez (shoulder) will meet his surgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Dugas, in Alabama later this month and could be cleared to resume hitting thereafter, Colin Beazley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

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In midst of throwing program

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Shoulder

August 11, 2025

Pirates director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk said Wednesday that Valdez (shoulder) has resumed playing catch out to 90 feet, Colin Beazley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

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Done for season after surgery

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Shoulder

May 21, 2025

Pirates director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk said Wednesday that Valdez recently underwent season-ending surgery on his dislocated left shoulder, Danny Demilio of PittsburghBaseballNow.com reports.

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Moved to 60-day IL

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Shoulder

May 14, 2025

The Pirates transferred Valdez (shoulder) from the 10-day injured list to the 60-day IL on Wednesday.

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